[31] Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the rebels, &c., _Scobell_, i. 26. The royal consent was given March 19, 1641-2.
[32] Arthur Freke's Narrative, printed from the _Sloane MSS._ in the Journal of the Cork Historical Society, 2nd series, i. 1; _True Relation of God's Providence in Ireland_, by Hugh Peters, November 18, 1642; Day's edition of Smith's _Cork_, ii. 153, 1894; _Exceeding Good and True News from Ireland_, London, August 20, and _Exceeding Joyful News_, August 27.
[33] Hugh Peters and Smith's _Cork_, _ut sup._; Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, August 1642, pp. 203-215.
[34] Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, August and September, 1642; _Bellings_, i. 139-148; Hugh Peters, _ut sup._
[35] Hugh Peters, _ut sup._ The narrative was ordered to be printed by a committee of the House of Commons immediately after Forbes's return. Two letters from Forbes to the two Houses, dated Glin, September 27 and 28, were brought over by Peters and published October 11. He says the Irish were 'so impudently bold as to father their rebellion upon his sacred Majesty,' though they had never seen any warrant. Their 'priests and prime commanders' tried to make them fight desperately by saying there was no hope of pardon.
[36] Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, April to August; _Bellings_, i.
[37] Sir James Turner's _Memoirs_, p. 25; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 45; O'Neill's _Journal_; _Bellings_, i. 116. Leven was back at Edinburgh, November 30, 1642, Spalding's _Hist. of the Troubles_, ii. 100.
[38] O'Neill's _Journal_; _Bellings_, i. 152; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 72; Letter of Monck and other officers, September 12, in _Confederation and War_, ii. 363. Some wit produced the following:--
'Contra Romanos mores, res mira, dynasta Morus ab Eugenio canonizatus erat.'
[39] Ormonde to Nicholas, August 13, 1642, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_; _Confederation and War_, ii. 50, 129, 139, 243.
[40] Remonstrance of grievances, March 17; the King's letters and Commission, April 23, _Confederation and War_, ii. 248, 265.
[41] Inchiquin to Cork, May 25, in Smith's _History of Cork_; _Castlehaven_, p. 41.
[42] Commission dated Oxford, April 23, in _Confederation and War_, i. 267; Propositions of the Confederates, June 24, with Ormonde's answer, June 29; Bellings' reasons in favour of a cessation and Scarampi's answer, July and August. The above are in _Confederation and War_, ii.; _Bellings_, i. 160; Carte's _Ormonde_. See the observations in Gardiner's _Great Civil War_, chap. xi.